EP2451718B1 - A bottle with a secure cap - Google Patents

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EP2451718B1
EP2451718B1 EP10734549A EP10734549A EP2451718B1 EP 2451718 B1 EP2451718 B1 EP 2451718B1 EP 10734549 A EP10734549 A EP 10734549A EP 10734549 A EP10734549 A EP 10734549A EP 2451718 B1 EP2451718 B1 EP 2451718B1
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Xianzhi Zhou
Christopher Leonard Padain
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Reckitt and Colman Overseas Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
    • B65D41/46—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
    • B65D41/48—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D55/02—Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure
    • B65D55/024—Closures in which a part has to be ruptured to gain access to the contents
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K5/00—Holders or dispensers for soap, toothpaste, or the like
    • A47K5/06—Dispensers for soap
    • A47K5/12—Dispensers for soap for liquid or pasty soap
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
    • B65D41/46—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
    • B65D41/47—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers push-on and twist-off
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
    • B65D41/46—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
    • B65D41/48—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics
    • B65D41/485—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics with integral internal sealing means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D55/02—Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure

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  • the present invention relates to a bottle with a secure cap.
  • Caps are known in the art which are designed so that, once they have been attached to a bottle, they are difficult, in practice, to remove. Such caps are designed so that they cannot be removed by an average person using just their hands. It may, however, be possible for the cap to be removed by the use of tools or in some other way applying an unusually high force, but any such removal will often result in destruction of the bottle.
  • Screw-on caps which have ratchet teeth which bias the lid in such a way as to prevent engagement of the complimentary screw threads as the lid is rotated in a direction opposite to the direction in which it was screwed onto the lid. Whilst such mechanisms are effective, the requirement for a screw thread and the ratchet teeth results in a lid which is reasonably thick to accommodate the mechanism. Also, the shape of a cap does not always lend itself to a screw thread engagement, for example if the lower edge or outer skirt of the cap has a non-planer profile.
  • the present invention is specifically designed for a bottle which provides a refill for soap and the like which is then dispensed by an automatic dispenser. Once the refill is empty, if the user could remove the cap and refill the bottle, there is a danger that they would fill the bottle with a product which was incompatible with the dispensing device, or would fail to replace the cap properly resulting in leakage into a dispenser which would at best be messy and at worst would damage the device.
  • a bottle with a secure cap disclosing all the technical features of the preamble of appended claim 1 is known from document GB947126 .
  • a bottle with a secure cap comprising:
  • the present invention therefore takes a fundamentally different approach from that of GB 0820984-3 ( WO2010055313A1 ) in that, rather than preventing re-attachment of the cap, it aims to prevent the cap from being removed at all.
  • the combination of the engaging shoulders of the first and second retaining flanges, together with the means to prevent relative rotation of the cap and lid makes it very difficult for an average person to gain sufficient purchase on the cap to remove it readily.
  • the mechanism could, of course, be defeated by a determined effort, for example a person inserting a knife or some other implement between the cap and bottle.
  • the mechanism can be made robust enough to resist all but the most determined efforts to remove it.
  • the first and second retaining flanges may be configured so that one or both of them is arranged to be damaged if the cap is removed from the bottle thereby compromising the functionality of the cap.
  • the cap is provided with an auxiliary flange which is positioned so that, with the cap on the bottle, the first retaining flange is retained between the second retaining flange and the auxiliary flange.
  • the auxiliary flange acts to prevent inward deflection of the first retaining flange, thereby making it more difficult for the user to disengage the two shoulders.
  • the protrusion is preferably provided on the bottle while the recess is preferably provided on the lid.
  • the recess is preferably defined by a pair of ribs which extend between an outer skirt of the cap and an inner circumferential element which defines the second retaining flange. This provides structural rigidity for the ribs.
  • At least one of the protrusions, recesses first and second shoulders are provided with bevelled edges to provide guide surfaces as the cap is placed onto the bottle.
  • a bottle with a secure cap comprising a bottle having an open neck and a first retaining flange around at least a portion of the neck; and a push-on cap fitted over the neck, the cap having an outlet which is closed by a closure which is openable by a non-rotational movement and a second retaining flange positioned so that, upon placement of the cap on the bottle, the first and second retaining flanges deflect relatively to one another as they pass and snap back into place once they have passed with a shoulder of the first retaining flange engaging a shoulder on the second retaining flange to hold the cap securely on the bottle; one of the bottle neck and cap having a protrusion which fits into a complimentary recess on the other of the bottle neck and cap to limit or prevent rotation of the cap and bottle.
  • the closure may be any element which does not rely on rotational movement of the cap in order to open. It could, for example, be a piercable foil but is preferably a resiliently deformable member such as a zel/slit valve or a valve member biased onto its seat by resiliently deformable members.
  • the bottle 1 is a generally rigid plastics container containing liquid soap and the like. It is generally elliptical in cross-section as shown in Fig. 2 . It may also be used to dispense other liquid or semi-liquid products (ideally with a viscosity greater than water), such as hand cream, body lotion, moisturiser, face cream, shampoo, shower gel, foaming hand wash, shaving cream, washing-up liquid, toothpaste, or a sanitising agent such as alcohol gel.
  • the bottle is specifically designed to be used in an inverted configuration on an automatic dispenser. However, this does not form part of the present invention and will not be described here.
  • the bottle has a neck 2 which is surrounded by a first retaining flange 3. This may either be continuous around the circumference of the neck, or may be intermittent. As shown in Fig. 6 , the retaining flange 3 is provided with a projection having a tapered surface 4 on one side and a shoulder 4' on the other for the reasons described below.
  • protrusions 5 At diametrically opposed locations on the upper portion of the neck, there are a pair of protrusions 5 which have a tapered upper surface 6 as shown in Fig. 3 . There could equally be only one or more than two of these protrusions.
  • the cap 7 is best shown in Figs. 4 and 5 .
  • the cap has a generally elliptical shape corresponding to that of the bottle and is provided, from the inside out, with a circular auxiliary flange 8 which may or not be continuous, a second retaining flange 9 described in more detail below and an outer skirt 10 having the elliptical shape of the lid and being provided with a pair of lugs 11 to locate on the dispenser (not shown).
  • the auxiliary flange 8 also serves to seal against the inner wall of the neck 2.
  • the second retaining flange 9 is best shown in Fig. 6 . This may be intermittent or circumferentially continuous and projects upwardly from the lower surface of the cap.
  • the free end of the flange 9 is an enlarged portion 12 defining an upper tapered surface 13 and a downwardly facing shoulder 13'.
  • the second retaining flange 9 is provided with a number of notches 15 which allow the second retaining flange 9 to deflect as the bottle is inserted into the cap. Between each pair of notches 15 are a pair of radial ribs 16 which extend outwardly to the outer skirt 10. Between the ribs 16, the second retaining flange is interrupted and this defines recesses 17 which accommodate the protrusions 5. Circumferentially outwardly of the ribs 16 is a tapered surface 18.
  • FIG. 7A This shows the bottle partially inserted into the cap.
  • the bottle is slightly out of alignment with the cap and the tapered surfaces 6 on the protrusions co-operates with the surfaces 18 in the cap to guide the bottle to the correct alignment.
  • the tapered surface 4 on the first retaining flange 3 co-operates with the tapered surface 13 on the second retaining flange 9 to deflect it outwardly aided by the notches 15 until the shoulders 4', 13' pass one another at which point the second flange 9 snaps back into place thereby securely locating the shoulders as shown in Fig. 6 retain the first flange 3 between the second flange 9 and auxiliary flange 8.
  • the protrusions 5 are within recesses 17.
  • the cap can rotate to a small degree (less than 25°, more preferably less than 20° and most preferably less than 15°) until the protrusions 5 abut one of the ribs 16 (as shown in Fig. 7C ) to prevent further rotation.
  • the cap and neck are designed so that the cap cannot be removed by force of less than 15kg, preferably less than 20kg, and more preferably 30kg.
  • one of the first three and second flanges is designed to be broken or plastically deformed to such an extent that the cap can no longer be retained on the bottle.
  • valve mechanism Also shown in Fig. 6 is the valve mechanism.
  • the lower surface of the cap has an outlet orifice 30 surrounded by an annular wall 31.
  • the valve element 32 sits on top of the wall 31 and is biased in place by the plurality of resilient members 33.
  • An air inlet opening 34 shown schematically and is closed by a valve member 35.
  • the bottle is placed into a base in the orientation shown in Fig. 6 .
  • the base is provided with a spigot (not shown) the top of which is provided with castellations.
  • the spigot opens the valve element 32 against the action of the resilient members 33 thereby creating a flow path beneath the valve element 32 and through the castellations in the spigot.
  • pressure drops and the lowering in pressure causes the air inlet valve element 35 to open to allow air into the bottle.
  • Figs. 8 to 10 The second example of a cap end bottle is shown in Figs. 8 to 10 . This is similar in most respect in the first example. The same reference numerous have been used as appropriate. The same valve 32 and outlet 30 shown in Fig. 6 will also be present although this is not shown in Fig. 10 .
  • the only difference relates to the configuration of the second retaining flange 9'.
  • the continuous flange of the first example has been replaced by a component with supported on a plurality of support members 36 separated by gaps 37.
  • Above each gap is a tapered surface 13' with a similar cross-section to the surface 13 on the first example.
  • the engagement is similar to that of Fig. 6 , although the intermittent nature of the second retaining flange 9' enables greater overlap between the two parts in the assemble state.
  • the provision of a number of discrete sections engaging with the first flange 3 increases the likelihood that one or more of these will be broken as the cap is removed.

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MY (1) MY160286A (ru)
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